Remove Climate Control and Take It Apart

[hojemwod]

Here is how you get your climate control out,taken apart, and fixed. This was done on my 1992 Si.

How to remove the climate control unit from the vehicle.
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How to take it apart.
Remove the vents. While your in there, clean out the owls and babies and junk.
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To fix: Get a soldering iron with a pointy tip. Take your solder and melt a small ball of it onto the tip of the iron. Then add the solder to the connections. When you're done, take a screw driver or knife and scrap in between the solder to make sure there are no unwanted connections. If you are using solder with silver in it, wear a respirator, the shyt is poisonous.

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Heres how I do it.
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Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any damage caused to your equipment if you screw it up! It doesnt take a pro, but soldering electronics can be hard so if you don't feel like you can pull it off then don't try it!

Do not copy without permission, please.

-Gary

[Si Speed]

Smaller pics and it might be more effective, lol. I had a hard time figuring out what I was looking at since it was so big but otherwise, very good work.

[hojemwod]

hahaha i dont know why they're that big, i'll see about re sizing them next time im bored

[thomas97]

nice write up d00d

[Si Speed]

So you did this write-up in response to the climate control not always lighting up? That's a problem with 4th gens. Mine does it too. I have to beat the dash to get it to light up.

[hojemwod]

the brown plug controls the bottom lights, the green plug controls the top lights and buttons...if the green plug is loose than the climate control button functions like defrost etc. wont work so thats why i did this write up. a few people wanted me to do it too..and thanks Tim

[Si Speed]

Gotcha.

[hojemwod]

cool

[sfields]

I never had to remove the buttons, just the sliders. The only time I had to remove the button faces was to change the color piece inside from blue to red. Might have changed from 92 to 93 but I dunno.

[hojemwod]

hm, maybe you dont have to remove the buttons, im looking at the unit right now and it doesnt look like you have to remove them, i dont know why i did......well thats how you remove the buttons if you need to do it people haha..thanks for the input!

[sfields]

Yea I def broke a clip on all the buttons except one though. Luckily there are two on each button so they hold fine. So unless you have to I wouldnt.

[hojemwod]

Yea I def broke a clip on all the buttons except one though. Luckily there are two on each button so they hold fine. So unless you have to I wouldnt.

heh, yea i slightly broke one today because i forgot how to take them off but then i figured it out...if you do it like i said they should pop off without breaking

[juniorlude]

So you did this write-up in response to the climate control not always lighting up? That's a problem with 4th gens. Mine does it too. I have to beat the dash to get it to light up.

dude, that's so funny. I used to have to do the samething, then later one night I hit it real hard cause I was frustrated, and like ten minutes later my fuel/temp gauge went out. I don't think it had anything to do with that, but it was ironic, and irony sucks. Anyways, mine works perfectly after I took it out and re-soldered it. Thanks for the great write up, you helped me alot. And one tip, don't do this outside in below freezing temperatures. I nearly froze to death, but i'm still kickin.

[hojemwod]

dude, that's so funny. I used to have to do the samething, then later one night I hit it real hard cause I was frustrated, and like ten minutes later my fuel/temp gauge went out. I don't think it had anything to do with that, but it was ironic, and irony sucks. Anyways, mine works perfectly after I took it out and re-soldered it. Thanks for the great write up, you helped me alot. And one tip, don't do this outside in below freezing temperatures. I nearly froze to death, but i'm still kickin.

no probalem d(.)(.)d...haha i also spent many freezing hours working on my car, but it was warm out when i did this write up!

[ninety3lude]

i followed this write up and resoldered it but i havent got it back in the car yet to test it. my air conditioner didnt seem to work before either. is this supposed to fix that too or is that a different problem

[HondaNeedsBoost]

"Remove the vents. While your in there, clean out the owls and babies and junk."

lmfao i seriously fell out of my chair...good write up dude...ill use this if they dont fix mine down ta votech

[hojemwod]

i followed this write up and resoldered it but i havent got it back in the car yet to test it. my air conditioner didnt seem to work before either. is this supposed to fix that too or is that a different problem

It should fix the a/c; my ac didnt work before i fixed mine either. If the green light doesnt come on when you press the ac button then the ac wont come on. If the green light comes on but the ac still doesnt work then there is probably something else wrong. Let us know how it works!

[hojemwod]

"Remove the vents. While your in there, clean out the owls and babies and junk."

lmfao i seriously fell out of my chair...good write up dude...ill use this if they dont fix mine down ta votech

lol thanks man

[93[BB4]Prelude]

awesome write up, yea pics could be a little smaller but oh well. and i was LMAO when you said babies and owls and junk :biggrin: :biggrin: .... all my lights work alright, except for the slider lights, but they even come on most of the time... the slider function works, because it goes from hot to cold and visa versa... BUT the heat will just not get hot, its barely luke warm... my coolant levels are fine, ive been trying to find the culprit forever because its winter in NH and it SUKCS BAD haha.. anyone know anything at all.. pllleassee.. sorry for jacking this write up but im desperate.

[hojemwod]

Yea I agree about the pic size, I havent been bored enough to resize them yet lol. My slider lights also dont work as of doing this writup haha I must have bumped something. About the heat not getting hot...maybe a hose is clogged and only lets a little bit of coolant through? Also, I think the cable also is connected to a valve in the engine bay on the firewall at the same location where the cable is. (<<I hope you can tell what I mean about that. I'm also not 100% sure of that, I saw a valve type sliding thing and figured thats what it was.) You might have to take your intake off to find it, and dont worry about the thread jacking shiz its only a tutorial...my tutorial, lol. Thats all I really know about how the heat works.

[hojemwod]

awesome write up, yea pics could be a little smaller but oh well. and i was LMAO when you said babies and owls and junk :biggrin: :biggrin: .... all my lights work alright, except for the slider lights, but they even come on most of the time... the slider function works, because it goes from hot to cold and visa versa... BUT the heat will just not get hot, its barely luke warm... my coolant levels are fine, ive been trying to find the culprit forever because its winter in NH and it SUKCS BAD haha.. anyone know anything at all.. pllleassee.. sorry for jacking this write up but im desperate.

Heres a thought: did you try pressing the button that makes your car recirculate the air instead of bringing it in from the outside?

[ninety3lude]

grr! i would stress to make sure you line up the green plug perfectly. 2 of my little prong wires bent. now i might have to buy a whole new one. hopefully it will still work. ran out of light for today

[hojemwod]

grr! i would stress to make sure you line up the green plug perfectly. 2 of my little prong wires bent. now i might have to buy a whole new one. hopefully it will still work. ran out of light for today

Hm, maybe you can bend them back with hemostats(sp?) or something. Did they bend as you put the plug back in? The way the plug is designed I dont see how it wouldnt go in straight but anythings possible. Sorry that happened.

[ninety3lude]

well i managed to fix the pins. turns out it was the male part of the plug that was the problem. some of the green plastic was bent over in a couple of the holes. might have happened when i was puttin in the bottom screw and bumped the plug against something. who knows. but i got it in fine and everything seems to work. i didnt turn the car on but all the lights work now and i could hear the different settings change and the a/c fan turn on so i imagine everything works better now.

[hojemwod]

nice

[wizkid0140]

hahahah frikin owls and babies, bummer about the pics tho, but directions works great. This took me a long ass time haha

[hojemwod]

lol whats wrong with the pics youd be lost without them..nah proly not..but yea this takes a while

[Rustysandwich]

Great tutorial
Thank you very much!

[hojemwod]

yep no problem....mine stopped working again so Im gonna get better pics when I fix it again...i think its stuck in defrost so my cars suckin gas.

[moska32]

that will do

[hojemwod]

yes. it should

[importsnrice]

Just did this. Great write-up! I just gotta get the new LED's in and I'll tell you guys how it came out

[mr_y82]

Looks like good instructions...

Anyone else have the following problem?

When I move the "location of the air"... vent, defrost, heat (floor) nothing really changes, I always have a little air coming out everywhere and the fan speed still works. What would cause this???... I guess I should make a new thread, but it seemed related enough that I didn't want to immediately clutter up the website...

let me know if I should just start a new thread instead.

[hojemwod]

Looks like good instructions...

Anyone else have the following problem?

When I move the "location of the air"... vent, defrost, heat (floor) nothing really changes, I always have a little air coming out everywhere and the fan speed still works. What would cause this???... I guess I should make a new thread, but it seemed related enough that I didn't want to immediately clutter up the website...

let me know if I should just start a new thread instead.

thats exactly what my problem was and this fixed it...for a while..now i think i blew a relay or something

[mr_y82]

^ thanks a lot man. this is good news.

[hojemwod]

glad to help hope you're able to fix it

[abelsgotspeed]

some bad-a photos there.

[importsnrice]

My problem was also my temp dial was stuck. Turns out the cable wasn't even on the Climate Control :(. Popped it back in and wa-la!

[mr_y82]

^that worked out nicely for you.

I still haven't taken the initiative to look at mine.. don't have a/c right now, so we just cruise with the windows down... (my prob is that the selector doesn't work...posted above)

[Brusly BB4]

I just redid mine and finally the damn lights stay on. One problem though, the rear defroster button light stays on all the time. I tried two different climate controls but it just stays on. Anyone know where I should look to fix this problem?

[steve_o]

great post

[hojemwod]

it has been almost a year, but i finally replaced the ****ty pictures, saved some old ones, rezised them, added a video, etc.

[hojemwod]

I just redid mine and finally the damn lights stay on. One problem though, the rear defroster button light stays on all the time. I tried two different climate controls but it just stays on. Anyone know where I should look to fix this problem?

the relay might be stuck on...? if thats possible

[mr_y82]

^lol my rear defrost light usually will not go back off once I turn it on either... I need to get the thing fixed at the lights acout the temp and fan control don't work anymore either... I am just lazy and inept!

strange problems we have... at least they seem minor.

[Camshafted]

so i have a couple things to say. first off the pics arent to big in my opinion the images are just too close up. like the pic of the screw under the climate box. if someone wasnt firmiliar with the set up they will be flippin the pictures all around cuz some of the angles are funky. secondly this is the only place that i have found a step by step how to on this subject. ive been looking for two months. Awsome job dude! and... THANK YOU!

[hojemwod]

so i have a couple things to say. first off the pics arent to big in my opinion the images are just too close up. like the pic of the screw under the climate box. if someone wasnt firmiliar with the set up they will be flippin the pictures all around cuz some of the angles are funky. secondly this is the only place that i have found a step by step how to on this subject. ive been looking for two months. Awsome job dude! and... THANK YOU!

thanks man!

the pics used to be too big, i redid the whole writeup a few weeks ago. its hard to get a further away pic of the 3rd screw...i just stuck the camera under there and took the pic lol..